http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/4/section/1Atomic Energy Authority (Weapons Group) Act 1973An Act to transfer to the Secretary of State the Weapons Group of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, and for connected purposes; and to modify section 2 of the Atomic Energy Authority Act 1954 in respect of the Authority’s power to do work on explosive nuclear devices.1977-09-30texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2014-12-01Expert Participation2004-07-22 11On a day appointed by the Secretary of State by order made by statutory instrument the undertaking of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (“the Authority”) shall cease to comprise so much of it as is known as the Weapons Group; and it shall on and after that date, be for the Secretary of State (and not the Authority, except under contract to the Secretary of State, or by his direction or with his approval) to carry on any activities which before that day were activities of the Group and involved the doing of work on explosive nuclear devices.2On the appointed day there shall be transferred to the Secretary of State for Defence by virtue of this Act and without further assurance—aall such lands and premises as immediately before the appointed day are the property of the Authority and were on 1st November 1972 the property of the Authority and recorded in the Authority’s books as held by the Weapons Group;bwithout prejudice to the foregoing but subject to the following subsection, all such property, rights, liabilities and obligations as immediately before the appointed day belonged to or were incumbent upon the Authority and appertained to the Weapons Group.3There are excepted from the transfer effected by subsection (2) above any rights, liabilities or obligations of the Authority under—aany contract of employment;bany agreement for the rendering by a person of services to the Authority in his capacity as a member of the Authority; orcany pension scheme or agreement relating to a pension scheme;and there are also excepted from that transfer the interests, property, rights, liabilities and obligations specified in the Schedule to this Act (patents and other industrial property).1.4.1973 appointed under s.1(1) by S.I. 1973/463, art. 2